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colonial times
Unit 3
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Social Studies
5th Grade
01/24/2012

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Anne Hutchinson
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founded Portsmouth, Rhode Island--banished, or kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with Puritan leaders
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James Oglethorpe
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He wanted the settlers in Georgia to do all the work on the plantations, but slavery eventually became legal
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Roger Williams
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disagreed with Puritan leaders--he thought government should tolerate different religious views
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Phillis Wheatley
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African poet who urged slaves to fight for freedom
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John Winthrop
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the first Puritan governor
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William Penn
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named the colony of Pennsylvania--"Penn's Woods" and called his first settlement Philadelphia--"City of Brotherly Love"
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Mary Musgrove
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her mother was from a Creek family and her father was English--she helped the Creek and the colonists become friends--she was a translator for them
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John Peter Zenger
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wanted freedom of the press--to publish stories about what was actually taking place in the colonies
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King Phillip's war
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Massasoit's son, (Metacomet) called King Phillip, wanted to stop colonists from taking more land in this war
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Puritans
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wanted to change, or purify, the Church of England
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Separatists
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wanted to separate from the Church of England
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New Amsterdam
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Present day Manhattan
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Philadelphia
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City of brotherly love
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Massachusetts
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The first colony to legalize slavery
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common
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the center of a village used by everyone
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covenant
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an agreement
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fundamental
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basic
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slavery
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the practice of owning people and forcing them to work
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tolerate
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to allow people to have beliefs or behaviors that are different for everyone
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patroon
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wealthy Dutch men who agreed to bring 50 people to their colony
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proprietor
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a person who is granted ownership of a colony
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debtor
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a person who owes money but cannot repay it
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indigo
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a plant used to make blue dye
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plantation
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very large farm, usually with one main cash crop
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apprentice
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someone who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or craft
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backcountry
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land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain
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Great Awakening
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a period in the 1700s in which interest in religion grew
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growth rate
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a year-over-year change expressed as a percentage
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slave trade
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the practice of buying and selling people
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slave codes
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laws that set rules of slavery
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spiritual
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a religious song created by enslaved Africans
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industry
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all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service
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Middle Passage
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a part of the triangular trade route between Africa and the West Indies, where Africans were transported to the West Indies
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triangular trade
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a shipping route between Africa, the West Indies, and England or North America
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assembly
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a lawmaking body
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legislation
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the making of laws
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Jamestown
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the first permanent English settlement
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Southern Colonies
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13
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How many original colonies were there?
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New England Colonies
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the founders of these colonies primarily wanted to keep their families together and practice their own religion, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
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Middle Colonies
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the founders were mainly looking to practice their own religion and make money..New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Delaware
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Southern Colonies
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the founders were, for the most part, out to make money (cash crops...Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
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New Netherland
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present day New York
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